bribe
noun
money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc..
unbribed
-
a word derived from
bribe.
Example Sentences
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Our desire is that every human being shall be true to himself, to his ideal, unbribed by promises, careless of threats.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
With this, to those unbribed inquisitors Who in man's inmost bosom sit and judge, The true avengers these, I leave his deed, By him shown fair, but, I believe, most foul.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
They desired me to do this, in order that future generations might recognise the painful labours which I had undergone for the public good, and the workings of my own unbribed conscience.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
After tapping many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an unbribed oracle, he vented his errand.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
Speaker Foster said that the whole unbribed intellect of Ireland was against the Union.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
